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Cushing's disease has a fairly expected presentation of increased water intake/ urination, appetite that can sometimes be voracious and some dogs even break into cabinets to feed their needs, thinning coat usually on both sides of the trunk evenly, swollen abdomen. Some dogs also have a heavy pant as well

CLICK HERE for an article on cushing's disease in dogs which is often diagnosed with a combination of an abdominal ultrasound and an ACTH stimulation test where we take a resting cortisol, stimulate the adrenal glands with medicine, and see if the cortisol an hour later is within the normal stimulation level or higher than expected which would give a diagnosis of cushing's

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